Sr. Staff Planning Engineer

Expand Energy Corporation; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Expand Energy Corporation in Oklahoma City seeks a senior level asset development engineer acting as a team lead to deliver technical and specialized solutions for petrotechnical challenges.

The role leads asset development planning, optimizes capital allocation, and defines drill sequencing. You will perform detailed financial analyses and evaluate midstream opportunities to support development plans. Collaboration across disciplines is essential to build robust development strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years related work experience.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• ABET EAC engineering program preferred, or PE license, or Master’s degree from ABET-accredited program.

Responsibilities

• Leads asset development planning and optimizes capital allocation.
• Defines well selection and sequencing of the drill schedule.
• Conducts detailed analysis of alternative development scenarios.
• Provides detailed analysis of midstream and commercial opportunities and ensures appropriate infrastructure investments to facilitate development plans.
• Combines aspects from all disciplines into a holistic development plan.
• Runs detailed financial models to evaluate investment decisions and opportunities across the business.
• Supports recurring forecast process.
• Builds development models to evaluate future growth opportunities.
• Evaluates non-op proposals.
• Conducts analysis of A&D opportunities.
• Performs detailed technical evaluations and provides recommendations to optimize asset development.

Skills

Financial modeling

Petroleum engineering

Oil & gas operations

Midstream hydraulics

Volumetrics

HPHT

Formation evaluation

Reservoir simulation

Unconventional resources

Analytical thinking

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Technical communication

Team leadership

ML/AI in analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

ABET EAC program

PE license

Master’s degree

Job description

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Our core values — Stewardship, Character, Collaborate, Learn, Disrupt — are the lens through which we evaluate every business decision. As a dynamic, growing company that offers extremely competitive compensation and benefits, our employees are our most valued assets and the foundation of Expand's performance among our E&P competitors.

We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. We realize that, historically, underrepresented groups feel the need to be 100% qualified in order to apply.If you meet any combination of our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We strive to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

Job Summary

This senior level position is considered a team lead that performs detailed aspects of engineering assignments in order to provide technical and specialized solutions to petrotechnical engineering challenges.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads asset development planning and optimizes capital allocation
• Defines well selection and sequencing of the drill schedule
• Conducts detailed analysis of alternative development scenarios
• Provides detailed analysis of midstream and commercial opportunities and ensures appropriate infrastructure investments to facilitate development plans
• Combines aspects and considerations from all disciplines and incorporates into a wholistic development plan
• Runs detailed financial models to evaluate investment decisions and opportunities across the business
• Supports re-occurring forecast process
• Builds development models to evaluate future growth opportunities
• Evaluates non-op proposals
• Conducts analysis of A&D opportunities
• Conducts peer analysis and comparisons
• Performs detailed technical evaluations and provides recommendations to optimize asset development
• Performs other duties as assigned

Job Specific Skills

• Expertise in economic analysis and financial modeling, including the use of Aries software
• Advanced knowledge of the practical application of petroleum engineering concepts - applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of the oil and gas industry
• Advanced knowledge of oil and gas operations
• Advanced knowledge of midstream systems, hydraulics, and commercial contracts
• Advanced knowledge and practical application of volumetric calculations, decline curve reserve determinations, appropriate analogue techniques and material balance assessments
• Advanced knowledge of high pressure/high temperature environments
• Advanced knowledge of formation evaluation
• Advanced knowledge and application of reservoir simulation techniques
• Advanced knowledge of unconventional resource development
• Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
• Ability to incorporate considerations from all oil and gas disciplines into defining optimal development plans and decisions
• Ability to effectively communicate technical analysis
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary asset development teams
• Ability to incorporate and apply ML/AI techniques to facilitate analysis and decision-making

Education

Minimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university

Minimum: One of the following:

Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or

Professional Engineer (PE) license, or

Master’s degree - from accredited university - Master’s of Engineering degree from a program in which the correlating Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the ABET EAC

Experience

Minimum: 8 years related work experience

Expand Energy takes necessary action to ensure that all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore inthe United States.

Nearest Major Market: Oklahoma City
Nearest Secondary Market: Oklahoma
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